National Gazetteer (1868) - Tollard Royal

"TOLLARD-ROYAL, a parish, partly in the hundred of Cranborne, county Dorset,
but chiefly in the hundred of Chalk, county Wilts, 8 miles S.E. of
Shaftesbury, and 8 N.W. of Cranborne. Ludwell is its post town. The parish
is apportioned into four farms, viz:, Higher Farm, Lower Farm, Corner Farm,
and Thorn Farm. In the parish is an old farm-house, called "King John's
Hunting Seat", thought to be the remains of an ancient royal residence for
hunting in Cranborne chase. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of
Sarum, value £467. The church, dedicated to St. Peter-ad-Vincula, has
recently been restored. There is a National Sunday-school. Lord Rivers is
lord of the manor."